Birth of American Nationalism

1. Nationalism

2. Robert Fulton
• 1807 – the Clermont

3. Fulton & Robert Livingston
1808
• Monopoly from NY on
Steamboat rights on
NY Rivers

4. Fletcher v Peck
• 1810 – Georgia tried to void a land sale
that had already been authorized.
• Involved the Yazoo River and a bribed
congress.
John Marshall said…
States must follow contracts.

6. 1815
• Spain & Portugal defeat Napoleon
Want America again
• Russia in Alaska since 1784 – Oregon?
US – want Mexico & Cuba
- Trade with China

7. President James Monroe
Sec. of State – John Quincy Adams
Nationalism – Focus = security & expansion

8. 1817 Rush – Bagot Treaty

9. 1818
• Illinois – 21st
state – FREE

10. Convention of 1818
• US – Canada border
49th parallel to Rocky Mtns.
Oregon England & US (Joint)

11. 1819
• Adams – Onis Treaty
1819

12. 1819
• Missouri Applies

13. 1819
• Dartmouth v Woodward
• McCulloch v Maryland

15. Ogden v Gibbons 1824